Garageland's AM-radio-friendly rock riffs and widescreen melodies, tailor-made for blasting out of the car stereo, have made them enormous in native Auckland, New Zealand, where their first three albums have gone gold. For Scorpio Righting, the four-piece group checked into Neil Finn's studio overlooking the black sands of Kare Kare Beach (where Crowded House made 1993's Together Alone) and spent eight months writing, recording, and simply jamming until a full-length album emerged. The idyllic surroundings contribute to an irresistible amalgam of pop hooks ("Kiss It All Goodbye"), off-the-cuff lyrics ("I'm goin' crazy / You should come too," singer-songwriter Jeremy Eade barks on the retro "Crazy"), and sing-along choruses ("High Way") that make this Garageland's most brazenly ambitious project yet. An album that is truly impossible not to enjoy.

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Garageland - Do What You Want (1999)

Influenced by Pixies, Pavement, The Clean and The Velvet Underground, they were critically acclaimed in the UK and US for their well-crafted and catchy pop songs.  Garageland's second album was released in the band's home of New Zealand in 1999 by Flying Nun Records. Do What You Want sounds like the best spawn of James with Brian Wilson trying to do his best Ric Ocasek impression while turning the knobs. An amazingly cohesive album, considering their last was basically a collection of singles. Do What You Want also includes songs that will make you glad you own a stereo and that it goes to 11. If it doesn't go that loud, it is time for a new hi-fi.. ..

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Garageland - Last Exit to Garageland (Deluxe Edition) (1996) [2017]

There are 22 tracks on the reissue album featuring eight bonus tracks including the previously unreleased sing-along worthy Byrds cover of "So You Want To Be A Rock-N-Roll Star". The Inspired rocker, "Graduation from Frustration," recorded in 1997, has never been released in the U.S., and was discovered by the on lat year's New Zealand release of a Flying Nun retrospective compilation. The twisted "Underground Nonsense" appeared as a hidden track on the U.S. release six years ago, and is now included in the credits. The remainder of the bonus tracks are rare b-sides that have not been released domestically including such gems as "Bus Stops," "One Shot" and "Shouldn't Matter But It Does."

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